How do users completely leave a HipChat room?

With 600 users and dozens of rooms, I'm starting to see a common complaint among those in our instance that they're unable to fully leave a room in HipChat. This means that those who were first exploring, or were only needed in a room once, are now permanently "attached" to a room and will be pinged with @all requests, even after they thought they've left. This is discouraging room exploration and I fear it will only get worse as our instance continues to spread across our company.

So is there a way for a user to completely leave a HipChat room and not be bothered bit it again until they rejoin?

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@all mentions

In a room you can use an "@all" mention to get everyone's attention at once (example: "@all Meeting is starting.") Everyone shown in the list on the right will be notified when @all is used. In open rooms this is just the people who are currently online and in the room. In private rooms this is everyone who has access to join the room (regardless of whether they are actively in the room).

@here mentions

Use @here to address the active members in a room and filter out everyone else (example: "@here Time for lunch!"). By “active” we mean you are logged into a room and your availability shows that green dot. It will never send emails, push notifications, etc., since those are only sent to people who are away/idle/offline.

If you are an admin of your group you can surely remove yourself from the room and other users as well. If you are not an admin, you will need to request them to be removed.

If you are an admin, you will need to browse through Group Admin -> Rooms, then click on the room you want to be removed and choose "Permissions". In this screen you will see the list of users who are part of the room and you can then remove yourself completely from it.

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I found the option to remove yourself. Open the web interface. Select Rooms from the top menu. Search for the room. Then select Permissions from the left menu. You will then see an Edit Members link that you can use to de-select yourself.

I would encourage you to visit the suggestion page linked above and click the *Vote* and *Watch* links near the top right to show support for the feature. By doing this, it will ensure you're proactively informed of progress and updates going forward.

Feel free to add comments/feedback in the ticket, also.

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Jesus, make users possible to leave rooms. Otherwise there is no consistency, you can join room by free will and couldn't leave it. And you end up participating tons of groups you don't need anymore. !!!

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Not only that - During my exploration of my ability to leave a number of rooms, a suggestion was to find the "rooms" tab and do it from there.

While in that tab I accidentally clicked a specific room here which I have no reason to be in - just simply clicking it added me to the list of members and now I cannot leave the room again and I am flooded with @here and @AlL comments all the time.

It's really frustrating.Every morning when I come in all the previous groups I was in are all popping up again telling me that someone tagged me there. :(

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If the room is public user can't remove themselves and admin can't either. The option is grey out in the 3dots tab. I think they need to fix this and allow users to remove themselves from a room public.

I've found a work around by making the room private, remove the user, and then switch it back to public. It will do until they fix it.

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